Quotes by William Shakespeare

"There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face."

"Boldness be my friend."

"Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?"

"Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow."

"Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once."

"Death is a fearful thing."

"We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep."

"Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair."

"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."

"Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven."

"There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so."

"The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones."

"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."

"To do a great right do a little wrong."

"The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact."

"We know what we are, but know not what we may be."

"This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

"I bear a charmed life."

"The course of true love never did run smooth."

"I was adored once too."

"If music be the food of love, play on."

"The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils."

"No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing."

"A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser."

"Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better."

"I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one."

"I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!"

"When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions."

"Better three hours too soon than a minute too late."

"We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone."